John Cornyn

John Cornyn (2 February 1952-) was the US Senator from Texas (R) from 2 December 2002, succeeding Phil Gramm.

Biography
John Cornyn was born in Houston, Texas on 2 February 1952, the son of a US Air Force colonel. He lived in Japan as a child, and he graduated from Trinity University, St. Mary's University, the University of Virginia. He served as a judge on Texas' 37th District Courts from 1985 to 1991, and he then served as an associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court, serving from 1991 to 1997. From 1998 to 2002, he served as Attorney General of Texas, and he was elected to the US Senate in 2002. He opposed gay marriage, flag desecration, the Paris Agreement, abortion, the estate tax, factoring global warming into federal project planning, and gun control, while he supported the Patriot Act; he supported most of George W. Bush's policies.